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Why do fantasy movies always use British accents?
    #18768639 - 08/28/13 02:20 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, etc.
Like wouldn't the general depicted timeframe consist of people speaking Old English?


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Re: Why do fantasy movies always use British accents? [Re: abltsandwich]
    #18768642 - 08/28/13 02:21 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

...and drinking Olde English 800?


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Re: Why do fantasy movies always use British accents? [Re: Me_Roy]
    #18768653 - 08/28/13 02:24 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Well you know what I wish Gandalf had a Russian accent.:kingcrankey:


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Re: Why do fantasy movies always use British accents? [Re: abltsandwich] * 1
    #18768654 - 08/28/13 02:24 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Apparently fantasy as a form of entertainment requires a certain level of "sophistication", that can only be achieved through British accent(Received Pronunciation)..

I'd love to see Harry Potter in Castle 'pon Tyne or Cockney accent :lol:


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Re: Why do fantasy movies always use British accents? [Re: abltsandwich]
    #18768659 - 08/28/13 02:26 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

I don't think they would seem as fantastical if the characters sounded like they were from Kentucky or New Jersey.


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Re: Why do fantasy movies always use British accents? [Re: Murph]
    #18768664 - 08/28/13 02:28 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

So by that logic then fantasy movies are less fantastical to British folks?


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Re: Why do fantasy movies always use British accents? [Re: abltsandwich]
    #18768669 - 08/28/13 02:28 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

It is a dramatic convention.

It helps to establish distinctions in class between characters and their place of origin.

LOTR was written by an Englishman and GoT's plot is based in England's dark history.


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Re: Why do fantasy movies always use British accents? [Re: abltsandwich]
    #18768674 - 08/28/13 02:30 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

:lol:

They live the fantasy, so obviously it has to be less appealing :lol:


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Re: Why do fantasy movies always use British accents? [Re: abltsandwich]
    #18768679 - 08/28/13 02:32 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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So by that logic then fantasy movies are less fantastical to British folks?




I suppose they are but seeing as I'm not british I cant really say.


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Re: Why do fantasy movies always use British accents? [Re: abltsandwich]
    #18768683 - 08/28/13 02:34 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Because of time and place. Everyone knows America is young as fuck, so it would detract from the aesthetic if they had American accents.


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Re: Why do fantasy movies always use British accents? [Re: Rose]
    #18768687 - 08/28/13 02:35 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

They'd be speaking Old English in that time period which doesn't sound like modern British English.
And those were just two examples.
Lets add more:

Gladiator, 300, Chronicles of Narnia...

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Because of time and place. Everyone knows America is young as fuck, so it would detract from the aesthetic if they had American accents.




Why not use a different language with subtitles of appropriate aesthetic is the goal?


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Re: Why do fantasy movies always use British accents? [Re: abltsandwich]
    #18768690 - 08/28/13 02:37 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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They'd be speaking Old English in that time period which doesn't sound like modern British English.
And those were just two examples.
Lets add more:

Gladiator, 300, Chronicles of Narnia...



maybe I'm just remembering it wrong but I'm preeetty sure they don't sound British in 300, maybe a little bit in Gladiator though.

and the characters in Narnia are from England sooo...


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Re: Why do fantasy movies always use British accents? [Re: mushroom_sandwich]
    #18768694 - 08/28/13 02:39 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)



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Re: Why do fantasy movies always use British accents? [Re: abltsandwich]
    #18768695 - 08/28/13 02:39 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Well I think if you use the actual language of the time you would need subtitles and they usually scare people off. I like a good subtitled movie because I cant tell if the acting is bad or not and it really seems interesting if you have to read every detail to keep up with the story.


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Re: Why do fantasy movies always use British accents? [Re: abltsandwich]
    #18768701 - 08/28/13 02:41 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

eh I wouldn't say that sounds all that british :shrug:


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Re: Why do fantasy movies always use British accents? [Re: mushroom_sandwich]
    #18768705 - 08/28/13 02:42 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Dude watch the movie or YouTube some clips.  It's all British.

Same with Troy and Clash of the Titans.


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Re: Why do fantasy movies always use British accents? [Re: abltsandwich]
    #18768711 - 08/28/13 02:45 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Clash of the Titans ALSO happens to be one of the worst acted, written, and filmed movies of all time. OF ALL TIME.


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Re: Why do fantasy movies always use British accents? [Re: abltsandwich] * 1
    #18768713 - 08/28/13 02:45 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

If they were in old English, you wouldn't understand any of it.


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Re: Why do fantasy movies always use British accents? [Re: abltsandwich]
    #18768715 - 08/28/13 02:46 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

maybe becuz mainstream associates that voice with medieval times and swords and things of that nature plus its exotic


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Re: Why do fantasy movies always use British accents? [Re: mushroom_sandwich]
    #18768717 - 08/28/13 02:46 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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Clash of the Titans ALSO happens to be one of the worst acted, written, and filmed movies of all time. OF ALL TIME.



You're complete wrong about that.  I loved that movie when I was a kid.  Bubo was awesome and Burgess Meredith rocked


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